Hurt and Healed by the Church
Redemption and Reconstruction After Spiritual Abuse

Ryan George grew up in the IFB movement with a pastor as a father. He attended an IFB college and was deeply entrenched in the movement and its doctrine. It wasn't until he was an adult that he discovered his pastor father was a s*xual predator with a consistent pattern of abuse against minors. Whil......more

In this powerful book, Ryan George shares his personal story about surviving spiritual abuse and coming to know the real Jesus through genuine Christian community. He explains that even though he experienced great harm in his childhood church, which his pastor father led, he was able to experience r......more

I started off feeling a bit cynical about this book, ironically expecting it to carry its own cynicism and self-righteousness about what went wrong with the church, etc. But what I heard instead was the heartfelt story of someone who experienced deep pain and the subsequent grief and questions that......more

I wonder how pervasive spiritual abuse is in the church. What Ryan George exposes here is despicable. I too am a victim of spiritual abuse and when I read of the crimes his father, a pastor of an independent fundamental Baptist Church, I wondered if I had a right to read this book if I made that cla......more

I bought this book because I heard the author interviewed on Natalie Hoffman’s Flying Free podcast. As one that spent 25 years in Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) churches and suffered many abuses, I can (sadly) testify on so many levels to what the author has written. Christianity is a cult wh......more